What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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